Regency in Portuguese – Part 2

Hello there and welcome to our Portuguese Basic Tips 67 called regency in Portuguese part 2

On today’s episode, we are going to keep talking about the regency of verbs in Portuguese. If you didn’t listen to our previous episode, you’d better start by listening to it. There you’ll find explanations about what regency in Portuguese means and you’ll hear a little bit about “crase”.

I decided to speak about this verb here because this causes a big mistake even for those who speak Portuguese frequently.

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It’s quite common for us to say: eu prefiro mil vezes banana do que laranja (I prefer to eat bananas than eating oranges). What we normally don’t care here is that this kind of sentence is wrong. To be honest, there are two mistakes in that sentence.

First: if we use the verb “preferir” (to prefer), we don’t need to exaggerate it by saying “mil vezes” (a thousand times). We simply prefer one thing to another.

This one here is another verb that we have a little bit of difficulties to speak correctly, but you won’t have them from now on. It happens that when people use the verb “implicar”, they are normally trying to be polite, they normally trying to be sophisticated, which I believe is even worse when it’s spoken incorrectly.

Isso implica algo muito ruim / It results in something very bad.

In Portuguese we also have this sentence “Isso resulta EM algo muito ruim”. Maybe because of that, people usually say “isso implica EM algo muito ruim”. That’s not the correct regency of the verb. When we use “implicar” verb, we don’t need to complement it. Let’s see a few correct examples with this verb: